Double-strap handle.



No. 830,732. PATENTED SEPT. 11, 1906.

l J. G. MoGLURE.

DOUBLE STRAPHANDLE. APPLIOATIOH FILED APR. 13. 1900.

- To all whom. it may concern.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. MCCLURE, OF NEWARK,NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO STERLING- MEAKER COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. A CORPORATION OF NEW "JERSEY.

'of'fares, such as cash fares and tickets or cash cipal member 0 fares and transfers.

The resent invention consists in a certain novel eature of construction and certain novel combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In using such handles as heretofore constructed, particularly-in connectionwith a rod in the center of a street-car, when one strap was sharply pulled the other was apt to fly up over the rod and stay there. The objects of the present invention are to prevent such accidental displacement of the straps and to accomplish this effect in the most simple and effective way.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figure-1 is an elevation of the improveddoub estrap handle as attached to a fare- .register operatin rod, which is shown in 0I'OSSvS6Gt1011. g. 2 is a side view projected from Fig. 1. E 3 is a top view of the prinf the improved double-strap handle on a larger scale; and Fig. 4 represents a section on the line A B, Fig. 3. j

Like reference characters refer to like parts in all the figures. I In the 1m roved double-strap handle a pair of depen ing straps a and bare attached to a lever part c ofsuitable metal, which is ada ted to roject'rigidly on opposite sides of t e rod (i vice and is preferably provided with 'a' pair I of set-screws e and f, by which to clamp the and 2.

handle in place upon such rod, as in Figs. 1

"Each of the straps a and b is preferably made with loops 1 and 2 at its respectlve ends, andaring b or the like 18 convenientlg looped tosone of the straps to distinguish it cm the Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 13, 1906- Serial No 311,423.

of a fareeregister operating de- DOUBLE-STRAP, HANDLE.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

other when it is grasped. The upper or at taching 100. s 2 of the straps are simply long enough to oosely embrace wrist portions 2 of the lever part. 0 parallel with the rod (1.

The-lever art 0 is constructed of sufficient width, as s own In Figs. 2 and 3, to accommodate the wrist portions 2' between pairs of slots 3 and 4, Figs. 3 and 4, at the respective ends of the lever part. A solid outer end portion 5 is thus formed outside of each of the attaching-loops which prevents the straps from flying over the rod in the manner herelnbefore described and compels them to hang easily accessible and effective positions, so as'to be readily grasped by the conductor as he collects the fares. 1n connection with the pair of set-screws e and f the lever art 0 is further constructed with a pair of ra ial bores 6 and 7, Figs. 3 and 4, inter nally threaded to interact with said screws and extending downward at convenient angles from the main bore 8 of the lever part, which is loosel fitted to the rod d.

The externa shape of the lever part c is of course immaterial. The lower ends of the straps a and I) need not necessarily be looped. A single set-screw or any approved clamping device may take the place of the pair of setscrews e and f, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

- Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this s ecification 1. A'dou le-strap handle for a fare-register-operating rod composed of a air of depcndmg straps having loops at t eir upper ends, and a lever part adapted to reject rigidly on opposite sides of the ro and constructed at each extremity with-a Wrist portion parallel with the rod to interact with the loop at the upper end of the corresponding strap and an outer end portion to confine the strap to its effective depending position.

2. In a double-strap handle for a fare-register-operating rod, a pair of depending stra s having loops at t ieir upper ends, in com ination with a lever part of suitable metal'adapted to project rigidly on o posite sides of the rod and. constructed wit wrist portions with said oops, pairs of slots between which said. wrist portions are formed and outer end portions substantially parallel with said extremities of said lever-piece and constructwrist portions to confine the straps to an ed with attaching-loops at theirupperends to effective depending position. interact with said Wrist portions, and means 3. The combinatlon with .& fare-register- ,for clam ing said lever part upon said rod, operaitirrlg rodi of a, lever psi-t of suitable substantmlly'ashereinbefore specified. meta a a, te to roject ri i on 0 osite Y i sides of th e rod m d constru cted with wrist H MCCLURE' portion and an outer end portionsub'stan- Witnesses: tislly parallel with said rod at each ofrits ex WALTER BRYERS, 1o tremities, a pair of straps depending from the S. R. CAIRNS. 

